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ERIC PARREN 2008-2017

Breeder is a website designed to let people playfully explore the principle of artificial evolution. The software is based on the concept of "the Biomorph" as proposed by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Blind Watchmaker.... >>more

Undulator is an immersive kinetic installation that explores both the color and reflective properties of light. In similar fashion to Thomas Wilfred's Lumia machines Undulator is a cinematic display that celebrates light in its purest form... >>more

Drifting is the result of a week-long experimentation with a modular analog video system at the Signal Culture media lab. The film was created using an intricate setup of pure video and audio oscillators connected through feedback networks... >>more

Aquasonics is a durational audio performance based around samples of water related sounds. It was developed for the 2016 CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial and was performed at multiple locations during the event... >>more

Gut Feeling investigates the boundaries of current microcinematography by using an advanced optical microscope and by employing building blocks of the promising field of synthetic biology as the content of an audiovisual experience... >>more

The use of E. coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria in biotechnology and microbiology has been foundational to the development of flied of genetic engineering. The bacteria have a long history in laboratory culture and are one of the most widely studied model organisms... >>more

The Synesthesia Glasses are an experimental sensory manipulation tool that allow the wearer to experience what it might be like to have synesthesia. By cross feeding the sonic and visual senses, using augmented reality technology, the glasses create a hallucinatory experience... >>more

The Last Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour is a live coding audio performance. It uses the original audio from the official NASA video that documents the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour's last trip to the International Space Station... >>more

GenePool is an interactive installation that explores the topics of artificial life and artificial evolution. As we can see from countless examples in nature, evolution is a robust and creative process for finding solutions to complex problems... >>more